A Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s History at Monticello

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Gayle Jessup White is related to the enslaver, Thomas Jefferson, and the people he enslaved.

“My ancestors literally built Monticello. Those people, my ancestors, made Monticello work. And they represent the millions of people enslaved in the United States of America,” said Gayle Jessup White. She learned through DNA testing that she is related to two families who once lived at Monticello – the enslaver, Thomas Jefferson, and a family that he enslaved.

Producer: Roberta Oster
Reporter: Dennis Ting
Photographer / Editor: Brad Clore, Wahoo Video Productions

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It is so wonderful that Monticello's history has been finally expanded to cover everyone that lived, worked and died there.

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Enslaver? TJ & the founders laid the foundation for this great nation so that people of all races & creeds could say what they felt like saying, worship whomever they wanted to worship (or not worship at all). Yeah, TJ was not perfect, but he at least set the stage for the freedom of all races, most specifically, the African Americans. Martin Luther King even had an appreciation for the documents that he help draft, that America could finally live up to its creed, that All Men (and women) were created equal.

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